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151.

The Ponzi Career (drorpoleg.com)

480 points by elsewhen on Apr 11, 2021 | 299 comments

152.

Mighty Makes Google Chrome Faster (mightyapp.com)

479 points by amasad on Apr 27, 2021 | 740 comments

153.

Show HN: I made a simulator for personal finance (projectifi.io)

479 points by scubakid on Apr 28, 2021 | 255 comments

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Fed up with the Mac, I spent six months with a Linux laptop (cfenollosa.com)

478 points by ecliptik on Apr 2, 2021 | 816 comments

155.

Prince Philip has died (royal.uk)

471 points by longdefeat on Apr 9, 2021 | 511 comments

156.

Eliminating Data Races in Firefox (hacks.mozilla.org)

470 points by caution on Apr 6, 2021 | 119 comments

157.

Vgpu_unlock: Unlock vGPU functionality for consumer grade GPUs (github.com)

468 points by fragileone on Apr 9, 2021 | 132 comments

158.

Thinkpad X230 with “e-Ink” display at 30fps [video] (youtube.com)

467 points by pcdoodle on Apr 19, 2021 | 216 comments

159.

My apartment was built on toxic waste (sfbayview.com)

465 points by czechdeveloper on Apr 4, 2021 | 235 comments

160.

An Update on the UMN Affair (lwn.net)

462 points by chmaynard on Apr 29, 2021 | 294 comments

161.

Wuffs’ PNG image decoder (nigeltao.github.io)

462 points by est31 on Apr 6, 2021 | 138 comments

162.

My startup failed, then I found out I was unemployable (davesullivan.is)

460 points by dave_sullivan on Apr 13, 2021 | 595 comments

163.

Unicode Proposal – Textile Care Symbols (github.com)

460 points by peterburkimsher on Apr 22, 2021 | 317 comments

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School custodian refuses to download app that monitors location, got her fired (cbc.ca)

458 points by docdeek on Apr 13, 2021 | 291 comments

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US agencies call for pause in Johnson & Johnson vaccine (bbc.co.uk)

456 points by basisword on Apr 13, 2021 | 1059 comments

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Nassim Taleb: Bitcoin failed as a currency and became a speculative ponzi scheme (digesttime.com)

455 points by thefoodboylover on Apr 16, 2021 | 423 comments

167.

Spotify is killing the open podcast ecosystem (2020) (singhkays.com)

453 points by dede4metal on Apr 20, 2021 | 292 comments

168.

Ubuntu 21.04 (ubuntu.com)

452 points by marcodiego on Apr 22, 2021 | 311 comments

169.

Basic Music Theory in ~200 Lines of Python (mvanga.com)

451 points by mvanga on Apr 19, 2021 | 188 comments

170.

34% of remote workers would quit rather than return to full-time office work (psychnewsdaily.com)

448 points by edoreld on Apr 7, 2021 | 327 comments

171.

Lambda School agrees to end deceptive educational financing practices (dfpi.ca.gov)

448 points by markplindsay on Apr 26, 2021 | 272 comments

172.

Windows 95 – How Does It Look Today? (dmitryelj.medium.com)

447 points by hu3 on Apr 2, 2021 | 513 comments

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CPU-based algorithm trains deep neural nets up to 15 times faster than top GPU (techxplore.com)

444 points by gumby on Apr 9, 2021 | 143 comments

174.

Zero click vulnerability in Apple’s macOS Mail (mikko-kenttala.medium.com)

443 points by jviide on Apr 1, 2021 | 257 comments

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U.S. Labor Secretary throws support behind classifying gig workers as employees (reuters.com)

442 points by alexrustic on Apr 29, 2021 | 517 comments

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FDA approves first test of CRISPR for genetic defect causing sickle cell disease (news.berkeley.edu)

440 points by zuhayeer on Apr 7, 2021 | 132 comments

177.

Things I hate about PostgreSQL (2020) (rbranson.medium.com)

439 points by latch on Apr 6, 2021 | 272 comments

178.

Proposed bill to ban US government from buying location data [pdf] (wyden.senate.gov)

439 points by jbegley on Apr 21, 2021 | 133 comments

179.

Green vs. Brown Programming Languages (earthly.dev)

438 points by muglug on Apr 22, 2021 | 486 comments

180.

Show HN: I'm working on a open-source, self-hosted alternative to Disqus (cusdis.com)

436 points by djyde on Apr 20, 2021 | 167 comments